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Welcome to the Sebastian Airport, "FLORIDA'S BOUTIQUE AIRPORT".

AIRPORT PROFILE

Sebastian Municipal Airport (FAA Designator X26) is located on the north west side of the City of Sebastian, on the east coast of Florida, between Vero Beach and Melbourne. It is a General Aviation (GA) facility, serving primarily small personal and corporate aircraft. It has two runways (RWY 5-23 and RWY 10-28), the longest of which is 4,000 feet in length. We have ten airport tenants, including Sebastian Municipal Golf Course, a first class, City-owned, public facility.

Google Map of Sebastian Municipal Airport as of March 2013

April 2013 view of newly remarked runways at the Sebastian Municipal Airport

In recent years, the Sebastian Municipal Airport has seen a vast amount of infrastructure improvements. Some of these include:

Installation of 24/7 self serve aviation gas system adjacent to Airport Administration Building on the southeast ramp of the Airport

Construct new airport maintenance building for all airport equipment

ADS-B Next Gen Tower installation and activation.

Completion of new LoPresti Aviation manufacturing facility and hanger.

Completed project to add new roadway, taxiway and infrastructure on east of airport using FDOT grant. This will provide future space for hangers and light manufacturing.

FDOT/FAA grant to rehabilitate Runway 5-23 completed March 1, 2010

Florida DOT grant for second new hanger/manufacturing facility of up to $1.45 million. Hanger completed October 2011.

Installation and operation in January 2012 of two wind turbine generators to reduce electric costs at the Airport facility

Fall 2012 the FAA published GPS approaches for Runways 5-23.

Remarking/redesignation of all runways as well as reconstitution of taxiways and overruns completed January 2013.

Eastside renovation with new entrance road/landscaping, new location for golf course maintenance building and building sites for new small businesses. This project will be completed by early 2016.

Construction of a new Hanger C to be completed by spring 2016.

Additionally, Airport Development Guidelines have recently been published to clarify and streamline the entire leasing process and assist prospective tenants throughout their site development.

OUR MISSION

The City of Sebastian elected officials ,and all employees, are committed to making Sebastian the most desirable city in the State of Florida to live, for businesses to flourish and visitors to enjoy. Sebastian will become known as a city that manages and develops its human, natural and financial resources such that it is consistently able to provide and improve upon its reputation as a highly attractive and safe community with enviable business and recreational opportunities.

We will achieve this mission by implementing the following strategies that build on excellent work already begun:

Ensure that all employees fully understand and work toward the achievement of the mission.

Determine through workshops and surveys, the most important stated and unstated needs and expectations of the majority of our residents. Concurrently, seek to assess both internal and external attitudes toward all major City sponsored programs designed to meet those needs and expectations.

Continually assess the City's recreational and cultural activities and work to provide an optimal mix that satisfies our residents.

Develop a Growth Management plan that recognizes the City's current and future growth needs.

Continue to improve the budgeting process so that all human, natural and financial resources are allocated and all capital improvements are developed and implemented consistent with this mission.

Design and implement an employee recruitment, training and development plan that finds, trains, develops and retains people with the skills and talents needed to achieve the City's mission.

Develop and promulgate an Economic Development Policy that will entice commercial enterprises to Sebastian, thereby strengthening and expanding the City's financial resources.

Continue to improve methods of communicating information to residents.

Each Department of the City of Sebastian will develop and accept responsibility for specific action steps designed to achieve its portion of the mission. The City will review its mission statement annually and measure its progress periodically based on completion of specific goals set forth in the annual budgeting process. The final measure of success will be realization of the City of Sebastian's mission.

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Many of the pictures and aerial photographs courtesy of Jerry Peterman, Sebastian resident. You may see more of Peterman's work at www.jplphotoart.com or e-mail at
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Note: Under Florida statutes, e-mail addresses are part of the public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact the Airport Manager by phone at 772-388-8228 or in writing at Sebastian Municipal Airport, 202 Airport Drive East, Sebastian, Fl 32958, Attention: Airport Manager